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Jazz Journal
JJ 08/84: Benny Golson Quintet – One More Mem’ry
Forty years ago Victor Schonfield felt Golson's themes were still dull but that the instrumental anonymity of the 1950s had been overcome
JJ 08/74: Dollar Brand – African Sketchbook
Fifty years ago Mark Gardner found the SA pianist not particularly melodic and sometimes tedious but at his best a captivating individualist
JJ 08/74: Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Bright Moments
Fifty years ago Mark Gardner didn't enjoy the multi-reedman's circus act, wondering why the hell he didn't make a straight tenor album
JJ 08/74: Jan Garbarek – Witchi-Tai-To & Red Lanta
Fifty years ago Roger Dean was sorely disappointed by two releases from the Norwegian saxophonist who became a touchstone for Nordic cool
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JJ 08/64: Cleo Laine – Shakespeare And All That Jazz
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles loved the idea, writing and playing, especially of Ken Wheeler, and saw oft-derided British jazz vindicated
JJ 08/64: Various – Jazz Britannia Vol. 2
Sixty years ago Gina Wright lamented the poor musical quality and commercial agenda evident in this collection of British trad jazz
JJ 08/64: Cyril Davies And His Rhythm And Blues All Stars – The Sound Of Cyril Davies
Sixty years ago Gina Wright thought this EP, not representing Davies' best blues harp work, was aimed more at the pop than jazz market
JJ 08/64: In My Opinion – Johnny Hodges
Sixty years ago the Ellington alto man loved Bechet and Armstrong and thought Freddie Hubbard a trad-modern middle man
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Jazz in De-Lovely Dorking
At the Watermill jazz club, Graham Thomas saw the Joe Farnsworth & Sarah Hanahan Quartet and Anaïs Reno with the Pete Malinverni Trio
JJ 07/94: Andy Sheppard – Rhythm Method & Delivery Suite
Thirty years ago Derek Ansell found that Sheppard's effective sax playing compensated for the rhythmic monotony of the material
JJ 07/94: Jessica Williams Trio – In The Pocket
Thirty years ago Pat Hawes marvelled at the ambitious playing of the former house pianist at San Francisco's Keystone Korner club
JJ 07/84: Jaco Pastorius – Invitation
Forty years ago Simon Adams heard intelligence without cliché in Pastorius's solos, but found his big-band arrangements surprisingly routine
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